Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Health

Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program

Didactic Conferences

The fellows attend and participate in departmental grand rounds on a weekly basis. A list of last year’s topics is attached. In addition to weekly Departmental Grand Rounds, five didactic sessions are conducted each week in Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

The most important of these sessions occurs in the context of the weekly MFM division meeting addition. During this time in-depth discussions related to complex patients, management protocols, clinical and research topics are undertaken by fellows and MFM attending faculty. Attached is a list of the topics discussed over the last year.

As described in section VII. C. an Interdisciplinary Genetics Conference is supervised each Monday at 12:30 by Dr. Greene. Both antepartum and pediatric genetic cases, which have been seen by members of the clinical genetics service, are discussed. The fellows participate in this conference bringing a valuable MFM viewpoint to a primarily genetic and pediatric audience.

The next session is a joint Neonatal Maternal-Fetal Medicine conference held each Monday at 16:00 during which time cases of mutual interest are presented and discussed with our neonatology colleagues. This session is attended by the MFM and Neonatology faculty, fellows, and on-service residents, allowing the MFM fellow to be exposed to many more cases than they actually can see. In addition maternal fetal medicine fellows and neonatology fellows present formal lectures on topics of mutual interest. As noted in section VII I. once a month this conference is dedicated to clinical pathological conference format with strong input from pathology, imaging, and pediatric surgery services. The Fellows are participants in these conferences, presenting clinical review and correlation for each case presented.

Previously a session, was, held every Thursday morning at 07:30 during which the events of the preceding week on Labor & Delivery were reviewed. This activity has been incorporated into the Friday AM Departmental case presentation conference noted below. This time is now being utilized twice monthly for a round table seminar in which fellows and MFM faculty members engage an in depth discussion of a pertinent topics Sources for initial readings for these conferences are the previous years ABOG annual board certification reading assignments for MFM recertification and the Clinical Expert Series in the ACOG’s Journal, Obstetrics and Gynecology.. Once a month the session will be used to conduct a seminar on scientific writing skills, i.e. the preparation and writing of research papers for submission to the medical literature. Once a month a session will be held during which progress on each fellow’s research is reviewed.

As noted above a didactic session is held Friday morning in association with Departmental educational time. It consists of a case presentation conference of a complex topic or case seen over the last week Ob-Gyn residents. The Fellows participate in the discussion of each case which may include teaching points as well as critical evaluation of the case or topic of the resident’s presentation

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This page was last updated on: June 6, 2008.